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Auction History Result 9f150 HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT linen 1sh '45 angel Jack Benny playing trumpet at the end of the world Date Sold 7/13/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Horn Blows at Midnight, the 1945 Raoul Walsh romantic fantasy afterlife musical comedy ("VERY FUNNY!!! And these are the girls he gets funny with!"; "[... And the laughs last all day!]"; "Warneriot!!!"; "Based on an idea by Aubrey Wisberg"; "It's all very funny and these girls are the girls he gets funny with!"; "Benny's from Heaven"; "and the Laughs are out of the World!!!"; "This year's Warneriot!!!"; "Based on an Idea by Aubrey Wisberg"; an odd movie about an angel in Heaven who is told that "The Chief" wants to destroy Earth, and he is sent with a trumpet which he will blow at midnight to signify the world is about to end, but then he not only loses the trumpet, but gets stuck on Earth, and there are many farcical subplots) starring Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardner, Guy Kibbee, John Alexander, and Mike Mazurki. Note that the movie begins in a conventional way with a trumpet player falling asleep and the entire movie is a dream, and at the end of the movie, he wakes up. Apparently, that opening and closing were added at the last minute, because the movie was too weird for preview audiences! Also note that Jack Benny spent the entire rest of his career joking about how awful this movie was, but actually, it is quite entertaining! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered on parts of the foldlines. There were many pinholes, tears, and areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster, and some pinholes scattered in the image. The entire poster had darkened and had some smudges and faint stains scattered throughout. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. But please read our description above and look at our super-sized image before placing a bid on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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